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In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color. ↗

— William Albert Allard

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Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. ↗

— David Bailey

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When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things. ↗

— Wynn Bullock

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When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive. ↗

— Barbara Cook

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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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